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Friday, July 28, 2006

Southern Speak

The Southern States of America

Husband and I have lived in Kentucky since 1969 (it's the red state just below Indiana and Ohio). He came from California and I came from Chicago. Before we moved here to the south, we only spoke northern Yankee and Hispanic Californian. Now we speak Y'allbonics with the best of 'em. Some examples from the Y'allbonics/English dictionary are:

We moved here to Kentucky so husband could work for the gubmint, but he retard a cuple yars ago. So did I retard, now we jist have fun breathin' in the clean are and havin' fun. How 'bout jew? Are you retard? If so, good fur yew.

I'm going to tell you a little secret...when I first came to Kentucky I couldn't understand a thing anyone said. I was constantly saying, "What?" "Could you repeat that, please?"& "What does that mean...what are you trying to say?" I still get on Jimmy's last nerve once in a while asking him for a definition of a word he is using.

This was some post, tears are running down my face from laughing! I heared 'nother one...CROWNS- this girl was always talking about her son wanting some more CROWNS. Took me a while to figure out that she meant crayons!